Kathleen S. Arnos, Ph.D. began her career at Gallaudet in 1983 as a Research Scientist in the Gallaudet Research Institute. In 1996, she became faculty in what is now the Department of Science, Mathematics, & Technology.

Her graduate work in the Department of Human Genetics at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, focused on the genetic susceptibility to endocrine disorders in individuals with the congenital Rubella syndrome. Over the past 30 years, she has been the PI or co-PI of multiple externally funded grants in the area of human genetics.

Dr. Arnos teaches courses in research methods and human genetics. She is actively involved in research on hereditary deafness to study common genes causing deafness and the impact of genetic testing on the deaf community.

Dr. Arnos is also Director of the Genetics Program, which provided genetic counseling services to deaf people from 1984 through 2009.

Arnos KS, Welch KO, Tekin M, Norris VW, Blanton S, Pandya A, Nance WE (2008). A comparative analysis of the genetic epidemiology of deafness in the United States in two sets of pedigrees collected more than a century apart.Am J Hum Genet 83:200-207.